Momordica erinocarpaFenzl ex Naudin [family CUCURBITACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Luffa echinataRoxb. [family CUCURBITACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
Momordica erinocarpa
Luffa echinata
Flora
Entry for LUFFA echinata Roxb. [family CUCURBITACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by C. Jeffrey & M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Trailing or scandent herb. Leaf-blade broadly ovate, cordate, sinuate-dentate, asperulous or scabrid, 1.5–10 x 2–13.5 cm, palmately 3–5-lobed, lobes broadly ovate to elliptic; petiole 1–8.5 cm long. Tendrils 2-fid. Dioecious. Male flowers racemose. Peduncle 1–14 cm long, pubescent. Pedicels 3–12 cm long, bracteate. Bracts small. Hypanthium 1.5–2 mm long, pubescent. Sepals ovate or broadly ovate, 3.5–5 mm long. Petals white, obovate, 10–16 mm long. Female flowers solitary. Pedicel 2.5–4(–10) mm long. Ovary subglobose, shortly rostrate, densely spiny, densely hairy, c. 10 mm long. Corolla as in male flowers. Style prominent, enlarging in fruit. Fruits subglobose, densely spiny, 2.5–3.5 cm in diam. Pedicel 0.4–2 cm long. Seeds 5–5.5 x 3–4 x 2–3 mm, black, slightly rough, not margined.
